Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. What's to talk about? It's common understanding that there are going to be new strains from year to year much like we have a new influenza strain each year. One more chronic condition for the Health Maintenance industry to help line their balance sheets and justify the executive bonuses.
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  2. I'm seeing and hearing a lot of people basically saying "shut up and vote!" but also "if you don't vote for candidate A or Candidate B then you are throwing away/robbing one of them of your vote". Too which I reply that if one side or the other is so dependent on my vote they need to represent me. I'll vote but the politicians on the ballot at the federal level don't represent me. I'll be voting for local candidates and on local ballot measures but the rest is irrelevant. BTW - I would have loved to see someone out there like Nina Turner or Tulsi Gabbard get the nomination so this isn't about race and gender.
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  3. Sadly yet typically, I suspect none of them were in the room while she read it. I'm glad she did that, though. It's good to have the text saved to the congressional record.
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  4. And Central America - probably Africa too but I don't know of anything specific there.
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  5.  @nicobsm111saintmichel7  I see us as less a commodity and more like a resource to be managed, exploited and tossed on the waste pile when they're done with us.
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  6. ​@DarthKrickets416 Not Capital L Liberal or P Progressive as disingenuous political labels. I'm talking about individual people who are liberally minded and progressive individuals. Most politicians, especially those who make it to the top like Trudeau, have more than a little Authoritarianism in them. The difference is their iron fist comes wrapped in a velvet glove. When challenged the gloves and mask come off.
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  7. Love this guy!
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  8. Staus Quo Joe? Have you seen his record? The only thing you can count on is that he'll do the bidding of the oligarch and corporate donors. If Harris has to take over she'll fall in line too.
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  9. Happens in Israel to palestinian kids all the time.
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  10.  Box Car  The officer has the discretion on how to handle the situation. He chose to cuff and take a six year old little girl to be incarcerated. Why are you making excuses for his choices? Wait - Officer Ramos, Is that you? And did you really not get that Tyrone Jones was pointing out that some black people , or people of any ethnicity, will happily turn on their own people to make themselves look good for their bosses - or masters? Come on, dude. You aren't that stupid are you?
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  11. The "War on Drugs" has been going on a hell of a lot longer than since 2006 - what the Hell, DN?
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  12. "All right! This chick is TOAST!" ... "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown... THROW IT!"
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  13. Old Bankrupt Donny thrives on panic and chaos. His whole life has one big lie - con - grift. He and his family have gotten where they are through nepotism and fear (fear being the root of all the families evils and tragedy). If anything, I still have a hard time believing the shear number of people who are joyfully drinking his Kool-Aid. I knew there were a lot of broken people out there, but I didn't realize just how many or how badly. If anything, I'm surprised there isn't a full blown civil war and not just the skirmishes we're seeing - so far. The Oligarchy needs the pendulum of distraction to be really swinging to keep us froggies from noticing the globe slowly coming to a boil.
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  14. Well, you really triggered some trashies with a pretty tame comment. How odd.
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  15. Ron DeTorturer
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  16. I suspect most every guard, soldier, and defender of of every despotic regime didn't see themselves as the problem either. That broken cog in our broken justice system is just another example of the villains thinking they are good guys.
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  17. Old Bankrupt Donny IS Florida Man.
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  18.  @srgreeniii  You're dreaming. Nothing that severe is going to happen and either old Bankrupt Donny, or someone worse, will be running in 2024 and may very well win - especially if there is a strong progressive candidate runnign as a third party candidate and does to the Dems what Ross Perot did to the Republicans in 1992. Perot may not have won anything in the electoral college, but he won something around 19% of the popular vote and definitly put Bush Sr's failings on full display and syphoned away enough support and votes to help ensure the Clinton victory. A third party real Progressive could easily do the same to a neo-liberal Biden or Harris running in 2024. This will be even more likely if the Senate stays Republican and McConnell shuts Biden (or Harris if/when she has to take over) down making the Dems look weak and ineffective.
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  19. They were never better than anyone else - neither are the Palestinians. Individual people can be better than others, but not entire groups.
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  20. That's not true. There about 50 million immigrant in total in the United States. That's the total immigration since 1965 when the modern Immigration and Nationality Act. What news are you referring too? Faux news?
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  21.  @TheMercilessEye  A lot of things need to change, but as far as this thing I considered the decreasing value a million dollars has these days so I added the "probably" for them. But my feelings are that someone with tens or hundreds of millions has enough that they can afford to contribute most of that to making the world a better place.
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  22. This is just one more policy of the State that goes out of its way to focus it's full force and power against the weakest and most vulnerable - the powerless make the easiest targets for manifesting propaganda. We see the way our own impoverished citizens and even those who have been able to climb the ladder to the lower rungs, especially when they come from a different ethnic or national identity or stray from the norms of societal standards, are used as examples to demonstrate the authority of the state and drive the narrative of division and distraction used to keep the authoritarian status quo intact. I keep waiting for a knock on the door, but then I remember - they won't knock.
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  23. That actually isn't something to be worried about. Medical waste gets incinerated which destroys the virus. Unless you are talking about non-healthcare personnel using gloves, masks gowns, etc. Be concerned about the non-medical waste like disposable food containers and utensils.
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  24. An Indian Children's Reeducation School, huh? History is doing a bit more than just rhyming here. We should all be able to see repetition of horrible choices being made - except there are also always those who applaud this horror show of a national tragedy. Some people are broken and revel in their ugliness and ignorance, happy to drag all of us down into their hell. BTW, Fort Sill's CO's choice to roll out Major Loud-mouthed authoritarian asshole - way to represent, douchebags! One more example of why we shouldn't give automatic praise to those in any uniform. The older I get the happier I get that the MEPS examiner laughed at me and told me my shitty eyesight disqualified me for voluntary service.
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  25. I wish something would happen to make DeJoy leave the job as the Postmaster General. Odd that the President can't get rid of him.
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  26. One can be. But as long as one chants the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free" thus explicitly calling for the destruction of the Israeli state, and one does not also speak out and stand against the call to "drive the Jews into the sea" advocating for a genocide of the Jewish people, then one is destroying any hope at a peaceful future with Israel and one is as much a part of the problem as Netanyahu and the other Israeli hardliners against whom one protests.
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  27. Follow the money.
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  28. 420 million PPM - whoa dude! The one time 420 isn't cool.
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  29. Shamelessly and hand over fist.
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  30. También colorado y otros lugares. Pero I grew up in New Mexico so...
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  31. Absolutely - needed to happen thirty years ago (like action on global warming), but the majority of people have always been too invested in the status quo and the two-party system. Unfortunately I don't see that changing. More likely people will just get totally turned off and not participate thus ensuring the continued rule of oligarchs and corporations as the climate gets worse. Welcome to the Cyberpunk age everyone.
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  32.  @sheilamacdougal4874  Except Orwell basically recanted that in another paper a few years later in December of 1944 -- "Nobody is searching for the truth, everybody is putting forward a 'case' with complete disregard for fairness or accuracy, and the most plainly obvious facts can be ignored by those who don't want to see them. The same propaganda tricks are to be found almost everywhere. It would take many pages of this paper merely to classify them, but here I draw attention to one very widespread controversial habit – disregard of an opponent's motives. The key-word here is 'objectively'. We are told that it is only people's objective actions that matter, and their subjective feelings are of no importance. Thus pacifists, by obstructing the war effort, are 'objectively' aiding the Nazis; and therefore the fact that they may be personally hostile to Fascism is irrelevant. I have been guilty of saying this myself more than once. ... This is not only dishonest; it also carries a severe penalty with it. If you disregard people's motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions. For there are occasions when even the most misguided person can see the results of what he is doing. Here is a crude but quite possible illustration. A pacifist is working in some job which gives him access to important military information, and is approached by a German secret agent. In those circumstances his subjective feelings do make a difference. If he is subjectively pro-Nazi he will sell his country, and if he isn't, he won't."
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  33. (7:31) "No reason...I mean, it should happen here...no reason" - am I wrong is that not what Flynn said? How can that be interpreted in any other way than as a call for a military coup along the lines what happened in Myanmar. The problem is that under the First Amendment I don't know if it's illegal to suggest or even advocate for the government to be overthrown, but in this case it sure as hell is deplorable.
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  34.  @rorycallaghan5719  You complain about insults but turrn around and add insults and hyperbole to your own comment - "firing away at everything that moves" and "...proven countless times". You realize that you are doing a bit of projecting yourself, right?
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  35. "...the ongoing exploitation and occupation of the islands by the US" - had to go there, DN - thanks for the jingoism.
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  36. Lindsey Graham knows all about selective outrage - and clutching his pearls.
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  37. Your mother loves you.
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  38. National unity? Really? Come on now, Status Quo Joe. Have you seeing the American people - they're revolting!
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  39. How about Climate migrants? Or US Foreign Policy migrants? How about if we just think of them as human beings - can you try that for a minute?
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  40. WASH YOUR HANDS!!! - and get healthy. Lot's of vitamin D.
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  41. That's West Virginia for you. But what do you expect? They keep voting for Joe Manchin.
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  42.  @helpanimals-  The 1971 song _ I'd Love to Change the World_ by Ten Years After is almost as old as I am and pretty much everything they wrote about is still going on. I agree that we need decent politicians running the government. Unfortunately, like with law enforcement, the politicians are a big part of the problem though. Here I go sounding like a crazy person, but what the hell -- the oligarchs and plutocrats who control the mechanisms of who gets elected at the federal level of government generally make sure that rarely do decent people get elected to those offices. There are exceptions but not many. From my perspective, the US Federal government is largely as kakistocracy with some of the least suitable or competent citizens filling many those political offices. I'm no Marxist but to borrow a useful term, I don't know how we get around the class problem. We do need to tax billionaires and multi-millionaires out of existence, but I don't think the billionaires and multi-millionaires are going to let their politicians they paid to put in office do that to them. I tell ya, "I'd love to change the world. But I don't know what to do..."
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  43.  Greg Brown  Then in the eyes of Trump and his enablers you are first, a sucker and second, not rich.
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  44.  @barndoor1262  Everyone knows what he meant - don't be a grammar Nazi too.
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  45. Just like the Stephen Miller emails and other examples that have already happened, intercepts of all this will come out sooner or later too. The Trump presidency will be an example of what not to do ever again. (Until the next generation comes along that needs to relearn the lessons all over again.)
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  46. "Get out of the way, Emily." One of the great moments of television during my life.
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  47. @Norse Mythology LOL - it's from the Lovecraft story The Shadow Out Of Time - such incredibly weird stories from such a sadly racist guy.
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  48. You had to know you weren't going to get much positive feedback with that description.
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  49. "Hey guys, let me post a sweeping generalization that goes against common sense and makes me look like a jerk!" -whoever you really are.
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  50. Pushing Hamas' propaganda is telling it like it is? Your bias is showing.
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